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• s  moving slowly
  a sluggish stream
• s  (of business) not active or brisk
  a sluggish market
• s  slow and apathetic
  a sluggish worker

• Apart from Pavlov and his dogs, Soviet psychiatry is perhaps best known for the breakthrough discovery of "sluggish schizophrenia" accompanied by "paranoid delusions of reforming .
• Which is one reason why, in a sluggish political summer, when Washington is competing with Mars and Mike Tyson for some quality time with the rest of America, Congress is going .
• Sales of the diet candy had been sluggish for years when Jeffrey Martin took over the product.

• sulky
• dull
• slow
• inert
• soggy
• torpid

News & Articles

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• Nation's CEOs say economic recovery still on slow road
  Four years into a sluggish recovery marked by modest hiring, the economic horizon looks pretty much the same in the eyes of the nation's top corporate bosses.        
  June 12, 2013 - Chicago Tribune
• Sluggish Brazil economy erodes Rousseff's popularity
  By Peter Murphy and Carl Patchen BRASILIA (Reuters) - Growing pessimism over Brazil's sluggish economic performance and rising inflation are starting to eat into President Dilma Rousseff's still-high popularity ratings, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday, the second in a week to show that trend. About 54 percent of 2,000 Brazilians surveyed this month rated Rousseff's government as either "great ...
  June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Sluggish start on Wall Street as a rally slows
  Sluggish start on Wall Street as a rally slows NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is getting off to a mixed start as traders show only mild enthusiasm for an improving outlook for the U.S. government's credit rating. Standard & Poor's raised its outlook for U.S. government debt, citing stable spending levels.
  June 11, 2013 - Beaumont Enterprise

Quotes

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• Ben Bernanke in RTT News
  Weak economic data that has come out since the January FOMC meeting "continues to suggest sluggish economic activity in the near term," Bernanke added.